Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:55:50 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: bts@babbleon.org, <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ACPI Message-ID: <20020114125404.P8519-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <20020114.104211.26545398.imp@village.org>
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> : I'd think it's "less interesting" because APM can report battery state and > : suspend and all that basic stuff. Or is the concern here about about > : machines with broken APM? > > Lots of new laptops just flat won't work with APM. I have one that > just kicks up its heels and refuses to do a thing with APM. Of course > this is the same laptop that assigns IRQs to the cardbus bridge that > aren't wired to the cardbus bridge, but I suppose I can't exect things > like that to work right, can I? > My laptop actually specifically says it won't work right with ACPI. (battery/power features at least). And it's right, on FreeBSD-CURRENT, I can't see the battery state or anything no matter what I do with ACPI enabled. Of course with ACPI enabled, the broken statclock problem goes away, so I'm not sure what I like better, having a working statclock, or having working battery info. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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